Jamisen's Big Debut - Aristokittens

Dearest Jamisen loves to sing. He is a SINGER and he has some great tone. He can hold a note and a tune like nobody's business.

Chris suggested that we get Jamisen singing lessons. I did a quick Google search and came up with what I thought was a choir.

It was not a choir. It was a theater troupe.  And they had a musical that they were planning to put on ... on Jamisen's birthday! What a weekend for our little guy. His birthday AND his stage debut, all at once. 

Jamisen played a very important role in Aristokitties - the role of Roquefort - a heroic mouse that saves the kittens from a dastardly plot to kill them. He had lines to memorize and dance moves to do. It was a lot for what was just originally going to be private music lessons. He rose to the occasion.

It was a challenging weekend because not only did he have his birthday party, but he was fighting an aggressive infection of the salivary gland that caused his face to swell in a rather crazy and insane manner. It was also deeply uncomfortable and accompanied by high fevers.

Originally, he had been misdiagnosed with mumps (and put in quarantine while Chris was in Saudi and I was single-parenting it so that was a challenging week). As it turns out, it was not mumps. Jamisen had an occluded salivary gland (which his Grandpa had diagnosed from a photo well before the incorrect mumps diagnosis). Jamisen was on very strong doses of antibiotics for his stage debut/birthday weekend AND was told that there was a 40% chance of his infection rupturing through his cheek. It was under this heavy duty craziness that his big theater debut happened.

We are proud of our little dude for persevering.

The show was a huge success. The kids were cute. Jamisen smiled, danced and said his lines with aplomb. Obviously, he was the best Roquefort. Ever.